Runway Gallery: Nicholas K Goes Grunge For Fall 2011

Nicholas K’s Fall 2011 collection showed at Lincoln Center yesterday morning around 9:30 and the clothes were all urban warrior and ’90s grunge: flannel shirts knotted around the waist, a pallette of camo greens, tartan and khaki, and lots of little downtown tough flourishes like leather, face-obscuringly high collars and drop crotches. Additionally, we learned you should always find a pair of sunglasses that fit! Let’s take a closer look.

So… on a technical question. Is the difference between drop crotch pants and harem pants just volume in the hips? Are drop crotch leggings simply a way to say, “Ok, so maybe the harem pants pushed it for the general public… but we still want to make you look like complete idiots. Here’s the relaxed version.”